[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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Handy XFCE Launchers
Create a launcher
1) Somewhere on the blank desktop, RIGHT CLICK
2) Select CREATE LAUNCHER
SSH LAUNCHER
1) NAME → anything you want
2) COMMAND → ssh MACHINE_NAME_OR_IP
3) CLICK → RUN IN TERMINAL
SSH LAUNCHER WITH VNC TUNNELING (GO TO THE BACKGROUND)
1) NAME → anything you want
2) COMMAND → ssh -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 -N -f TARGET_MACHINE_NAME_OR_IP
3) CLICK → RUN IN TERMINAL
NOTE: If your are listening for ssh on a non-standard port, just add -p PORT# to the COMMAND.
SSH LAUNCHER WITH VNC TUNNELING (STAY OPEN IN FOREGROUND)
1) NAME → anything you want
2) COMMAND → ssh -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 TARGET_MACHINE_NAME_OR_IP
3) CLICK → RUN IN TERMINAL
NOTE: If your are listening for ssh on a non-standard port, just add -p PORT# to the COMMAND.
Sources
* Originally written by arfon